On October 14, 1997, Vice President Al Gore said, “For those who argue that global warming is already changing the world’s climate, this year’s El Nino weather front is more than enough evidence”, the audience was told by Gore. In the next day, a report by the San Francisco Chronicle said: “Gore links El Nino to Global Warming”. The Vice President stated at the summit that growing frequency of El Nino episodes could be connected to the gradual heating of the atmosphere caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Ten years later residents in Argentina and Brazil are wondering if this winter will ever end. Buenos Aires recorded this Thursday (November 15th) the lowest November temperature in 90 years. Temperature in the Downtown weather station reached 2.5C. Since records began more than a century ago, only two days had colder lows in November. It was in 1914 (1.6) and 1917 (2.4). And ninety years ago the urban heat island effect was much less pronounced than nowadays. In Brazil's southernmost province Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil temperatures fell to 2.3C. In Sao Joaquim Monday's (Nov., 12) the temperature was -1.2 C with frost.

The culprit is a developing la Nina , a cooling of the water in the eastern Pacific along the South American coast, that some climatologists believe could indicate a return to the la Nina dominated situation that dominated from1947 to 1977. El Ninos, a warming of East Pacific waters. have been more common since then. Some climatologists believe the el Ninos may have caused what the IPCC calls "global warming".

NASA has recently indicated that the circulation of the Arctic Ocean has changed from the counterclockwise circulation of the 1990's to the pre-1990 clockwise circulation which could result in a cooling trend in the Arctic.

Such a shift would be consist with the projected cooling trend mentioned in the previous post.

See comment below for another warm location with a cold weather problem.

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I believe

I believe in global warming. I believe the Earth has natural cycles over the millennia. I believe the American government is a prime wrongdoer in OUR world. A major culprit in arguing against GW. I believe most Americans are ignorant of just how much bad feeling there is towards their country from outsiders because of their dismissive attitude. I know children especially view America as avoiding the issues. I know Chinese children are aware of their own country's record and aredismayed. I know Americans are just 5% of the Earth's human population. The other 95% have a democratic right to argue against you.. so listen... please.

What keeps it going

There are two things keeping this scam going:Twits as above who 'believe' instead of know things; andGrant money to 'study' things to death that feeds the universities and government research bureaus and that is generously provided by government to quiet the fears of the citizens. Which fears are reinforced by the studies. College boys are no fools. They will find the results that lead to more fear-based funding--a conveyor belt of MONEY.

Fortunately . . .

. . . for us, the climate does not care what we believe; it responds only to what IS. We shall soon discover whether the climate modellers' predictions are sound, or whether the planet has its own ideas about how it will proceed.

I IDENTIFY

I stand with Reason, TerribleTurk and Quincux on this issue.A member of the Royal Society once pronounced that 'man would never fly', he was applauded by that august body. Isn't it fortunate that two bicycle makers took no notice.

A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM ESTSATURDAY FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEASTGEORGIA.

COOL HIGH PRESSURE WILL SETTLE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT WITH CLEARSKIES AND LIGHT WINDS. TEMPERATURES WEST OF INTERSTATE 95 WILLDROP TO BETWEEN 25 AND 30 DEGREES AFTER MIDNIGHT. FARTHEREAST...LOW TEMPERATURES WILL DIP INTO THE 29 TO 32 DEGREERANGE...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM RICHMOND HILL TOSAVANNAH...BEAUFORT AND DANIEL ISLAND.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL AREAS...SCATTERED TOWIDESPREAD FROST IS ALSO EXPECTED.

A FREEZE OF 2 TO 5 HOURS IS EXPECTED IN MANY AREAS...WHICH ISSUFFICIENT TO END THE GROWING SEASON. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURALINTERESTS SHOULD PREPARE NOW FOR A KILLING FREEZE.

America really does not care

Ralph, despite what you hear from the liberal media the majority Americans could not care less what anyone else in the world thinks of us. Our country is superior to your's in every way possible. You don't see people risking life and limb to get into your country do you? No, in fact they would risk life and limb to get out. Also, someday you weak minded and easily swayed people will discover that global warming was the biggest hoax ever pulled on the human race. Do you have any idea what a money maker this will be to liberal governments? I did not think so. I implore you to open your mind and do some thinking on your own and stop listening to all the "sky is falling" alarmist out there who enjoy manipulating minions like yourself.

Re: America Really Does Not Care

While it is certainly true that many in America are not concerned about what people in other countries think about us, it is also true that we should not use name calling as a way of debating issues. There are many countries who owe their freedom and in some cases their very existance to the U.S. That fact requires no special favors, but one has to wonder why the scorn? We are a country that does good things and some not so good. When the chips are down we will be on your side no matter how you treat us.

I believe 2

I believe the U.S. creates over 1 billion foreign jobs with it's trade deficit.

I believe over 1 billion people now live in freedom because the U.S. stood up to the Soviet Union.

I believe over 1 billion people have lived longer lives from discoveries by U.S. scientists. Correction, I believe over 1 billion people have lived longer lives because of the single discover of penicillin by a single U.S. scientist.

PLEASE Help Stop Global Whining!

It is like the late great Ronald Regan said. "It is not that liberals are stupid, its just that they no so much that just isn't so."In the 70's they were trying to scare us saying the we were heading toward the next ice age. They then said DDT was going to kill us all when it has been proven safe for people and animals. then it was CFC's then Y2K. All hype and theories and lies. When global warming is shown to be false they will never admit it but just move on to another world ending tragedy. I call it the chicken little syndrome, always that the sky is falling.

GoFreedom = Bubba D Lumpus

"Correction, I believe over 1 billion people have lived longer lives because of the single discover of penicillin by a single U.S. scientist.

I believe most people in the world are never told these things."

Probably they are not told this because this is a wrong statement. Alexander Fleming, discoverer of Penicillin, was a Scot. Typical dumb American, think they are responsible for everything good in the world. Totally clueless.

and

I believe in global warming.I believe the Earth has natural cycles over the millennia.I believe the American government is a prime wrongdoer in OUR world. A major culprit in arguing against GW.I believe most Americans are ignorant of just how much bad feeling there is towards their country from outsiders because of their dismissive attitude.I know children especially view America as avoiding the issues.I know Chinese children are aware of their own country's record and aredismayed.I know Americans are just 5% of the Earth's human population.The other 95% have a democratic right to argue against you.. so listen... please.

Columbia University Press.

penicillin, any of a group of chemically similar substances obtained from molds of the genus Penicillium that were the first antibiotic agents to be used successfully in the treatment of bacterial infections in humans. The antagonistic effect of penicillin on bacteria was first observed by the Scottish biologist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928. Although he recognized the therapeutic potential of penicillin, it was not until 1941 that a group of biologists working in England, including Oxford's Sir H. W. Florey and E. B. Chain, purified the substance and established its effectiveness against infectious organisms and its lack of toxicity to humans. The first successful treatment of a patient with penicillin occurred in New Haven, Conn., in 1942. Despite the development of hundreds of different antibiotics in recent decades, penicillin remains important in antibiotic therapy.Small amounts of the antibiotic were first obtained from strains of the mold species P. notatum grown in fermentation bottles. During World War II need for the drug spurred development of better production methods; in the current method highly productive strains of Penicillium are grown in a cornsteep liquor medium in fermentation vats. The main form of penicillin produced by this method is benzylpenicillin, which, like all penicillins, is a derivative of 6-aminopenicillanic acid. Phenoxymethyl penicillin, which can be given orally because it is resistant to degradation by stomach acid, is produced by the species P. chrysogenum.

Main article in today's Times of London

Facts - past and present

Global temperatures have been as much as 15degrees F warmer in prehistoric times. Guess what, life flourished everywhere. We have a fraction of the diversity today as we did then. This is known from fossils and pollen records gathered from core samples.

Glaciers are melting from the Arctic and mountains. Why are they melting in places where the temperatures are never above freezing? Is it really "melting"? Ever heard of sublimation? It's not from heat.

So global warming has been happening for 10 years or so? Has any ocean actually risen? Wasn't that suppose to happen? It hasn't changed at all on my coast. Believe me, we would hear it everyday if it was occurring.

Ask questions, be intelligent.

Listening to Al Gore on the Environment is like saying Granny Clampett is a real doctor. He is a joke to people who don't have a political agenda.

Gore stands on the shoulders of giants...

The era of the fabulously wealthy race profiteers is giving way to the era of the great climate profiteers. The reverends and also former US presidential candidates Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, not to be outdone by international stars the likes of the Yasser Arafats of the world should be proud of having laid the groundwork for what may well turn out to be the greatest monetization of emotion ever engineered! Bravo!

Glad to see Hutchinson has bright boy

I am an environmental scientist living in in Hutchinson Kansas as the author does. I was suprised and glad to see someone in Hutchinson besides me has some doubts about the accepted causes of global warming if it does exists (which is questionable). My wife assures me that I and Rush Limbaugh are the only two people in the State of Kansas who have doubts about it. Our local government boys just denied a permit to a high tech power plant because they (actually one man pandering for votes for the governor) concluded the CO2 emmission would add to global warming. Although I would much rather see a clean pollution free nuclear powerplant go in I am sad to see that an unproved theory was given so much weight by local politicians. I will try to look up the author and introduce him to my GW believing wife.

Glad to see Hutchinson has bright boy

I am an environmental scientist living in in Hutchinson Kansas as the author does. I was suprised and glad to see someone in Hutchinson besides me has some doubts about the accepted causes of global warming if it does exists (which is questionable). My wife assures me that I and Rush Limbaugh are the only two people in the State of Kansas who have doubts about it. Our local government boys just denied a permit to a high tech power plant because they (actually one man pandering for votes for the governor) concluded the CO2 emmission would add to global warming. Although I would much rather see a clean pollution free nuclear powerplant go in I am sad to see that an unproved theory was given so much weight by local politicians. I will try to look up the author and introduce him to my GW believing wife.

Kansas?

WiseRalph

You're right when you say knocking down the climate profiteers like Gore is personal to me. Chinese leaders will use this scam to their propoganda advantage so as to maintain stability. Capitalists, on the other hand, will use the climate ruse to stick their hands as deep into my pockets as they can get them.That means my children and theirs forever will be robbed of those resources. You appear to be quite ignorant.

cexq

cexq.... how can you ignorantly presume me to be ignorant. Many hate you people who rant against mankind's efforts to combat CO2 and other emissions.Did you read the Times link above. Answer truthfully please. 2400 scientists believe it is happening. And you people on here argue. The Chinese are becoming the world leaders in solar heating, wind turbine technology and (clean) coal power stations. This is a fact. Having a strong government has some advantages. Beijing can react VERY quickly without recourse to timewaisting debate and 30% of a presleydents time in office campaigning.

WR - I'm not convinced

I think it is a responsible measure to reduce all forms of environmental polution. However, although I have seen evidence for global warming, I also have many doubts that the mankind is primarily responsible because I see just as much evidence to call the scientist's conclusions premature.

Where is the proof

Can someone please tell me where I can find any actual empirical evidence that anthrpogenic CO2 is causing the globe to warm? I am also concerned that the alarmists never come up with a single positive symptom of global warming. Can this be true?

Unfortunately...

Quincunx stated it well in his post. Unfortunately, by the time the climate shows us that this was all a smoke screen we may have suffered the removal of many of our freedoms. What kills me is that the very groups that in the past have been telling us the governments of the world are corrupt and can't be trusted are now trumpeting every gloom and doom syllable uttered by them.

By the way WiseRalph, the 2400 scientists you refer to are comprised of governmental representatives of which many are not scientists. Just the other day one of the actual scientists on that panel resigned and refused to accept his portion of the prize given to our beloved Mr. Gore. He stated that the whole GW issue is totally blown out of proportion. Just the other day the scientist who founded the Weather Channel called GW the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.

yes

it's all about bloody gore. Politicics again. Mankind has coincidentaly arrived at his most destructive phase just as the climate changes. Itexacerbates the situation into an alarming one. This is not about fast trains or flat earths.It's is bigger, with catastrophic consequences if the antis prevail.

Look at history

Please see the National Geographic Global Warming Map from last June. The map supports global warming, However--look at the rise in temps over 400,000 years. They go up the same every 100,000 years. Looks very consistant--It would appear that we are in a cycle. It would also appear that we have slightly lower temps than the highs over the 400,000 years. There is a lot going on. The Earth rotates around the Sun in a circle, and then an elypse over the years bringing the Earth closer to the Sun. Also, the rotation on the Axis changes, bringing different climates. So, more information is needed, rather than shooting from the hip, and assigning Noble Prizes. I would like to see an entire study, front and center, with all data presented.

WhoaaRalphy

Boy, you have bought into this thing completely! Someone as intelligent as you must have done the research to get a wide view of the issue... right? You must know there is credible research showing that CO2 has very little impact on the earths temperature. You also must know that the cooling/warming cycles of this planet have been going on for as long as we can look backwards; and that the current state is nothing unusual. If we got the politics out of this issue we would not be talking about it right now. We have not "coincidentaly arrived" at this phase, we have created it with our unabashed worldwide ignorance.

the end

Marauders?

Marauders in Kansas? How much time have you spent in Kansas, WiseRalph? For that matter, how much time have you spent in the US? Your broad generalizations concerning Americans border on racism and make me question the wisdom in any of your opinions. Global Warming is a money making scheme by huge government agencies and private corporations who stand to make enormous profits from the fears and guilt of millions of people. The climate of a planet is too complex to be affected by human population.

I

Wind; I have spent 4 years in the US; 5 years in Iceland; 1 year in Greenland; 4 years in Eire.. mostly Donegal; 4 years in China; plus 2 years in 49 other countries including time in Arctic Norway and a winter in the Faeroes. I have spent time in the desert of Australia and deep in the real rainforest of Malaysia. I have spent over 2 years in a mountain tent. This year I have twice been in the Himalayas, high up. I can also talk about Tibet.

traveler

WiseRalph, Kansas is in the 21st century like the rest of the US. It sounds as though you've done quite a bit of traveling, but has it given you a greater understanding of the peoples of the world. Even though you lived in the US for four years, you are depending on one textbook for your impression of a state with millions of people living in it. I would hope you'd have a more open minded view as your liberal politics would suggest.

Blonde2

I have dozens of books

I have many books about the US; her history and geography; her people and her attitudes. I also read newspapers. My Chinese wife has 1000 books on our shelves. I have cross refenced the Kansas stae as I am genuinely interested in mid nineteenth American history. I even own the 3 series of Deadwood on DVD which I know is in S Dakota. I think a pax is in order.

That explains it

hidden agenda

what about fear that the natural warming cycle will expose noah's ark is driving marxists to try to stop co2 emissons. a key tell is that many of the alarmists also hate fundamentalists [but not necessarily the more cooperative state churchs] .

Scientists?

I'm wondering how scientists came to the conclusion that we all need to pay a certain amount of money for our CO2 emissions?

Considering that most of the 20th century warming occurred before 1950, the NOAA had to state publicly that 1934 and not 1998 was the hottest year on record due to "data errors", combined with the Sun's impact quoted here already and cyclical patterns the Earth has demonstrated for years I am quite skeptical.

But, if the sheep want to believe rather than research then that is their choice. Just realize you are being taxed for this blind belief.

To jump into the "American's are the worst on the planet" debate; yes, some people are ignorant to other cultures and other views of people in the world but that can be stated for any country. I have encountered that in my travels and now where I live, in London. But, that isn't indicative of ALL English people. Just like you can't judge American's by the little that you know about them.

Prejudice is formed out of ignorance and as we move to a more globalized world we have to put aside these prejudices and understand that there are good and bad people from every society.

Yet another Statist Ruse - Don't Swallow It

"he whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."-- H. L. Mencken

And so it is with so-called Global Warming (GW) - while there may be climate changes, it appears to be a natural cycle and not a thing man can do will affect it one way or the other.

Unfortunately, the world is also plagued by those who 'believe' rather than think. These are the same folk, who in generations past, freed Barrabas rather than Jesus, supported bolshevism rather than freedom, brandished the Little Red Books of Mao and stuck their arms high in the air as Der Fuehrer drove past.

Think people, think. Don't 'believe' --- as that has been the avenue to tragedy time and again throughout history. Check the facts and you will find that GW is just the latest in a long line of government ruses used to seize power from the populations.

i believe.......ralph doth protest too much

you can't hide your obsessions sir..........maybe someday your dreams of traveling to the great mythical tyrant in the far west will come true, and you can proclaim your wisdom from the rooftops. Maybe even at Disney World!!.........until then, enjoy your Koolaid

i believe.......ralph doth protest too much

you can't hide your obsessions sir..........maybe someday your dreams of traveling to the great mythical tyrant in the far west will come true, and you can proclaim your wisdom from the rooftops. Maybe even at Disney World!!.........until then, enjoy your Koolaid

I believe..... I'll have another beer

China To Be Dirtiest Country in 21st Century

WiseRalph, it's admirable to see that you are a traveled person. What's disappointing is that your travels have not opened up your eyes to the communist rule that you live under is one of deceit and deception. And you are neither wise nor educated if you are reading lies and not reality. The reality is that while China may be leading in "environmental friendly" technologies (which I'd disagree), the fact is that China is growing more rapidly and on a current pace to producing more of your "global warming" emissions than any other country in the world. And there is no intent on doing anything about it. Go look up the Kyoto Treaty and see that China is allowed more emissions than the U.S. Why? Because you have to be allowed to "catch up" to U.S. industrialization. Here's just a few links. I'm sure you can find more. So let's not hear any more propaganda about how bad the United States of America is. Clean up your own house before complaining about your neighbor's.

Wise Ralph, I am glad I am not in your class

Well from what I have read so far some have checked out the data and seen the problems with the IPCC spin and some have just listened to the press.Now is time to put down the news papers and turn off the boob tube.As far as the 2400 to 2500 scientist that the IPCC clams you should start checking out the names and who they are. Most are not climatologists or meteorologist. Most that are scientist. (A very large number of the names are not) Lets start with some facts.1. Any group that uses ice core data as there only source is not playing with a full deck of cards. Ice melts in worm periods and that data is lost. When it starts cooling and ice starts to collect again we only see the last part of the picture. All data that come before the warm period and all of the warm period is lost.2. CO2 is not the cause of warming but a result of warming. The oceans are great store houses of CO2 and as the waters warm they release CO2. As they cool they absorb the CO2. Ice core data only sees the cooling and the drop in CO2 and not the relation ship.

Now lets look at the time line. Most of the warming started about 200 years ago at the end of the little ice age. Over 50 % of that warming happened before 1900. In the last 100 years we had cooling from 1940 to 1980. From the 1400’s to the late 1600’s we had a very cold period called the little ice age. From around 1100 to the late 1300’s we had a very warm period call the Medieval warm period. It was much warmer than it is now and we had very high CO2 levels at the end of that period. Where did all that CO2 come from? Well Co2 levels lag temperature rise by 150 years or more.Now for another warm period. The Holocene maximum which was also know as the bronzes age. From about 6000 t0 4000 BC. It was much warmer then now. By the way how many cars did they have back then?

As you can see what we are seeing now is not caused by man. It is a natural event in our weather systems. I have studied the raw data from both ice cores and ocean floor cores and they agree on the parts that data for both. As noted earlier that ice melts and the data is lost. So we used ice core data to check that we were seeing the same in the ocean floor core data. By using the mud cores we have a complete record. The IPCC worked only from ice core data. The IPCC report also showed the same data that I pointed out above. They just did not point it out as it did not fit there agenda. If you want to know why most of the studies say the same thing is you have to follow the money. If you get a grant to study warming and you come back and report that it is not happening you do not get anymore grants and you are out of a job. Global warming is a 10 billion dollar a year industry and growing. One last thing I also studied the relation ship to sun spot data to temperature and that revels some interesting data as low sun spot periods and low temperature periods match.Open your eyes and look at the data not the alarmist such as Al Gore.

Wise Ralph, I am glad I am not in your class

Well from what I have read so far some have checked out the data and seen the problems with the IPCC spin and some have just listened to the press.Now is time to put down the news papers and turn off the boob tube.As far as the 2400 to 2500 scientist that the IPCC clams you should start checking out the names and who they are. Most are not climatologists or meteorologist. Most that are scientist. (A very large number of the names are not) Lets start with some facts.1. Any group that uses ice core data as there only source is not playing with a full deck of cards. Ice melts in worm periods and that data is lost. When it starts cooling and ice starts to collect again we only see the last part of the picture. All data that come before the warm period and all of the warm period is lost.2. CO2 is not the cause of warming but a result of warming. The oceans are great store houses of CO2 and as the waters warm they release CO2. As they cool they absorb the CO2. Ice core data only sees the cooling and the drop in CO2 and not the relation ship.

Now lets look at the time line. Most of the warming started about 200 years ago at the end of the little ice age. Over 50 % of that warming happened before 1900. In the last 100 years we had cooling from 1940 to 1980. From the 1400’s to the late 1600’s we had a very cold period called the little ice age. From around 1100 to the late 1300’s we had a very warm period call the Medieval warm period. It was much warmer than it is now and we had very high CO2 levels at the end of that period. Where did all that CO2 come from? Well Co2 levels lag temperature rise by 150 years or more.Now for another warm period. The Holocene maximum which was also know as the bronzes age. From about 6000 t0 4000 BC. It was much warmer then now. By the way how many cars did they have back then?

As you can see what we are seeing now is not caused by man. It is a natural event in our weather systems. I have studied the raw data from both ice cores and ocean floor cores and they agree on the parts that data for both. As noted earlier that ice melts and the data is lost. So we used ice core data to check that we were seeing the same in the ocean floor core data. By using the mud cores we have a complete record. The IPCC worked only from ice core data. The IPCC report also showed the same data that I pointed out above. They just did not point it out as it did not fit there agenda. If you want to know why most of the studies say the same thing is you have to follow the money. If you get a grant to study warming and you come back and report that it is not happening you do not get anymore grants and you are out of a job. Global warming is a 10 billion dollar a year industry and growing. One last thing I also studied the relation ship to sun spot data to temperature and that revels some interesting data as low sun spot periods and low temperature periods match.Open your eyes and look at the data not the alarmist such as Al Gore.

Wise Ralph, I am glad I am not in your class

Well from what I have read so far some have checked out the data and seen the problems with the IPCC spin and some have just listened to the press.Now is time to put down the news papers and turn off the boob tube.As far as the 2400 to 2500 scientist that the IPCC clams you should start checking out the names and who they are. Most are not climatologists or meteorologist. Most that are scientist. (A very large number of the names are not) Lets start with some facts.1. Any group that uses ice core data as there only source is not playing with a full deck of cards. Ice melts in worm periods and that data is lost. When it starts cooling and ice starts to collect again we only see the last part of the picture. All data that come before the warm period and all of the warm period is lost.2. CO2 is not the cause of warming but a result of warming. The oceans are great store houses of CO2 and as the waters warm they release CO2. As they cool they absorb the CO2. Ice core data only sees the cooling and the drop in CO2 and not the relation ship.

Now lets look at the time line. Most of the warming started about 200 years ago at the end of the little ice age. Over 50 % of that warming happened before 1900. In the last 100 years we had cooling from 1940 to 1980. From the 1400’s to the late 1600’s we had a very cold period called the little ice age. From around 1100 to the late 1300’s we had a very warm period call the Medieval warm period. It was much warmer than it is now and we had very high CO2 levels at the end of that period. Where did all that CO2 come from? Well Co2 levels lag temperature rise by 150 years or more.Now for another warm period. The Holocene maximum which was also know as the bronzes age. From about 6000 t0 4000 BC. It was much warmer then now. By the way how many cars did they have back then?

As you can see what we are seeing now is not caused by man. It is a natural event in our weather systems. I have studied the raw data from both ice cores and ocean floor cores and they agree on the parts that data for both. As noted earlier that ice melts and the data is lost. So we used ice core data to check that we were seeing the same in the ocean floor core data. By using the mud cores we have a complete record. The IPCC worked only from ice core data. The IPCC report also showed the same data that I pointed out above. They just did not point it out as it did not fit there agenda. If you want to know why most of the studies say the same thing is you have to follow the money. If you get a grant to study warming and you come back and report that it is not happening you do not get anymore grants and you are out of a job. Global warming is a 10 billion dollar a year industry and growing. One last thing I also studied the relation ship to sun spot data to temperature and that revels some interesting data as low sun spot periods and low temperature periods match.Open your eyes and look at the data not the alarmist such as Al Gore.

Algore A.K.A. WiseRalph in China

Ice Age Whoas

I am certainly glad that global warming fanatics were not around as the ice age was coming to an end, they would find a way to maintain the climate and we wouldn't have what we have today.

I am with the cheif of NASA, Griffin, who said he doubted global warming is "a problem we must wrestle with," and that it is arrogant to believe that today's climate is the best we could have and that "we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change."

Buenos Aires Temperture is 21 C

Buenos Aires recorded a temperature of 21 C today (17/11/07) not 2.5 C. It is spring there. While I believe in climate change and doing everything we can to reduce pollution, I also believe in facts. And a temperature of 21 C is well above freezing and record setting cold temperatures.

Buenos Aires Temperture is 21 C

.... Buenos Aires recorded a temperature of 21 C today (17/11/07) not 2.5 C. It is spring there. While I believe in climate change and doing everything we can to reduce pollution, I also believe in facts. And a temperature of 21 C is well above freezing and record setting cold temperatures.

Ignoring the Sun

Are we having global warming? Yep! BUT!!!! Those who are crusading for global being caused by man are ignoring one fact. If the sun gets warmer, so do we. If it gets cooler, so do we, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it, either way. The sun is so much more powerful than anything all the nations on earth could do working together that the effort would be futile, absolutely futile. The liberal's position on this issue appears to be based on their belief of their own self importance in the ways of the universe, that they think they can overpower the power of the sun in order to get the results they want. Hogwash! Total, complete and absolute hogwash.

if you believe in global warming

you should consider that politicians have been caught up for years 'debating' the cause, and proposing new ways to control you, in order to 'prevent' it - even though most believers agree that it may not be preventable

believers should start focusing on preparing to live in this world instead of arguing - move to higher ground, improve infrastructure to cope with the 'violent natural events' that are 'imminent', change the way food is supplied, invest in emergency response tools, etc...

i cannot take you all seriously, because you all do not act like practical people standing in the face of this 'devastating' inevitability

Herb

The temperature above was the low temperature on the 15th. I checked a temperature map of South America indicating most of Argentina was below 10 C (50 F) that night with some areas near zero, but I don't have permission to post it.

Ugh

From Windycorner above: "The climate of a planet is too complex to be affected by human population."

Everyone on both sides can flaunt easily manipulatable statistics supporting one side or the other. Bottom line: everyone's speculating. No one has a true crytal ball on this. Hell, we can't effectively forecast local weather past three days. But to arrogantly profess that because of the complexity of the systems we can NOT have an effect is what has been the bane of man-kind since the beginnig of history.

Not to say, however, that we're the only cause

My comment above, however, is not an implicit acceptance of GW. I err on the sun-spot theory side, but if the truth usually ends up being somewhere in the middle of two viewpoints' perspectives, then one might draw a conclusion that we are exacerbating the situation...not causing.

I believe................whatever Maradona says.

I believe that Mr. Al Gore knows about Global Warming as much as Mr. Diego Maradona knows.I believe that WiseRalph is a great part of the GW problem, because he uses so much oil traveling around the world for what? Maybe, if he walks more he will have a better understanding of the world.I believe that everyone should do as much as they can and want to keep our planet clean and everything will be OK.I believe that the real danger are the terrorists, Al Gore isn't dangerous he is just wrong.And I believe in the great USA because we are open to change, because we learn from our mistakes, even if takes long time, because americans are a great bunch of people of all races, colors, believes and ideas.

The Era of Global Warming is here

One of the easy ways to reduce CO2 polution by humans is to set a world wide daily breath standard.

Joggers, to mention just one enviornmentally unfriendly group, spew CO2 in the air at a disgusting rate -- and most likely many feel quite remorseful.

This guilt could be avoided if there were an exchange in which people, such as myself, who do not engage in activities which cause me to use more than my share of air could sell some excess breaths to people who just can't slow down.

The Era of Global Warming is here

One of the easy ways to reduce CO2 polution by humans would be to set a world wide daily breath standard.

Joggers, to mention just one enviornmentally unfriendly group, spew CO2 in the air at a disgusting rate -- and most likely many feel quite remorseful.

This guilt could be avoided if there were an exchange in which people, such as myself, who do not engage in activities which cause me to use more than my share of air could sell some excess breaths to people who just can't slow down.

Beware

Global warming religion

Global warming heretics exist and Al Gore and his minions are on a global witch hunt to find and convert them. Their efforts would have made Tomás de Torquemada proud. The symbolic torture and burning at the state of anyone who would speak against GW is every bit as damaging, and sometimes just as deadly, as Torquemada’s best efforts in the Spanish Inquisition.

Al Gore has wondered aloud at the wisdom of the public media to seek out and/or publish dissenting opinions about GW. He refuses to debate the issue, even though it would clearly identify the above mentioned heretics and justify their summary execution.

That global warming has taken on the attributes of a fanatical religion is being more clearly demonstrated daily. Belittling critics, silencing dissenters, Al Gore and true believers refuse to debate the issue, considering it already decided and accepted as truth. Those objecting to the validity of GW are anathema as surely as Galileo by his rejection of the RC church beliefs of the movement of solar system.

I applaud those with the courage to stand up and speak out against the false doctrine of manmade GW.

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